Delivery mechanism



' Feb. 20,1923. 1,445,899.

R. McGREGOR;

DELIVERY MECHANISM.

FILED AUG-7. 1922.

U INVENTOR.

T 7W9 UMW ATTORNEYS.

Patented Feb. 20, 1923. a

UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

ROSS MGGREGOR, 0F SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE ELWOOD MYERS COM-PANY, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, A. CORPORATION OF OHIO.

DELIVERY MECHANISM.

Application filed August 7, 1922. Serial m5. 580,125.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Ross MCGREGOR, a

citizen of the 'United States, residing at Springfield, in the county ofClark and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Delivery Mechanism, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to delivery mechanism and in particular tomechanism for delivering articles in a predetermined position.

It is an object of the invention to provide a delivery mechanism fordelivering a plurality of articles which cannot be economically handledone by one.

It is a further object of the invention to provide means for sorting andarranging these articles during the course of their de-. livery from onepoint to the other so that this operation may take place without delayin their. delivery.

In particular, it is the object to provide a mechanism for this purposeso that the articles will be delivered in the proper predeterminedposition for the next operation in the course of their manufacture.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of the mechanism embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2--2 of Fig. 1.

In this particular embodiment shown in the drawings and discussed in thespecification, I have disclosed the adaptation of my mechanism to thedelivery of tobacco cans.

In the manufacture of such cans, after the tops have been mounted on thebodies of the cans, each can is delivered one by one from the cappingmachine which places the tops on the bodies, down a chute 1, upon aconveyor belt 2 which conveys the cans to the operator who has charge ofthe machine for placing the bottoms on the cans.

These cans must be so delivered that as the operator picks up the canwith the left hand, the can may be inserted in the bottom attachingmachine with the can upside down in the the position of the can on thebelt or conveyor and to have thecans delivered one by the conveyor whereit will come in contact with a stop and deflector consisting of the stop5 against which the head of the can will impinge as it is conveyed bythe belt. A. lateral member 6 on which the head of the can will roll anddue to the fact that the head of the can is thus slowed u while thebottom is being freely conveye by the conveyor, the position of the canon the belt will be reversed. A horizontal member 7 is projected intothe path of the can to complete the reversal of the can and in so doingit is deflected towards the other side of the belt where it will come incontact with the incline 8 which, when itleaves it, will have positionedthe can bottom first at a predetermined position on the belt as in theposition of the cans at 9 and 10.

The belt may be supported in any suitable fashion as by the drivingroller 11.

While I have shown and described certain features as constituting myinvention, it will. i

be understood that parts have been'sh'own for purposes of illustrationonly, and that I do not desire to be limited to such details, as

obvious modifications will occur to a person and stopped may roll whilethe articles are being reversed in fposition on the conveyor with aminimum 0 delay.

2. In a conveyor, a stop, a deflecting member placed adjacent to thesurface of the conveyor to deflect articles from one side thereof to theother, to be brought in contact with the stop, a second deflectingmemher on which one end of each article so deflected end stopped mayroll while the articles are being reversed in position on the conveyorwith the minimumof delay and means to position said article in theirreversed position at predetermined points on the conveyor.

3. In a conveyor, a delivery chute, a eonveying belt for receivingarticles from the delivery chute. a deflecting member superimposed onthe belt end adjacent thereto for engaging with the articles sodelivered to deflect them to one side a stop spaced from the deflectingmember adapted to stop i eeaeee one end of the article, a seconddeflecting member for assisting in effecting the reversal of position ofthe articles, an angular member for completing the reversal'of the ture.

ROSS McGREGQR.

